Actress alleges Cary Fukunaga had her fired from True Detective after she refused to go topless

The Daily Beast

Raeden Greer, who was 24 when she signed on for a small role as an exotic dancer on the HBO series, tells The Daily Beast Fukunaga's nudity request came despite a no-nudity clause as part of her contract and assurances she wouldn't have to get naked. Greer is speaking out now after Fukunaga, director of the new James Bond movie No Time to Die, weighed in on Bond in the post-#MeToo world, telling The Hollywood Reporter recently that Sean Connery's Bond forcing women to have sex with him despite their protestations "wouldn’t fly today." "But Fukunaga’s words rang hollow for Greer because she says that’s exactly the way Fukunaga treated her on the set of True Detective when she refused to go topless, engaging in a tense 10-minute standoff with the director, who she claims tried every bargaining tactic he could think of to convince her to agree to the nudity," reports The Daily Beast's Cheyenne Roundtree. "And when Greer wouldn’t back down, citing not having a nudity rider in her contract and her overall feeling of discomfort, she was sent home—her speaking role, she says, handed to an extra with no acting experience, but who had agreed to be nude." Greer, who went on to a small role on American Horror Story, says: "It was disheartening. It felt bad. You can’t just treat people like all you are is a pair of tits, that is very hurtful. And now, Cary is out here talking about his female characters—it’s like another slap in the face over and over and over. Yes, he has had an illustrious career—that was a star-maker for him, and what happened to me? Nobody cares.”